Co-transcriptional folding is encoded within RNA genes

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Meyer, Irmtraud M ^a   Miklós, István ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALGORITHM; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFORMATION; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; INTRON; RNA PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES; HYDROGEN BONDING; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 21444454097     PISSN: 14712199     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-5-10     Document Type: Article

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